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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that analyzes issues relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Brand new developments in distance learning are empowering learners in every nation on earth to take classes via the Internet. These massive open online courses are free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are many issues that learning technology institutions are struggling with now that blended learning technology is improving so fast. How can participants ensure that the quality of schooling provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can organizations be assured that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach classes online? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can participants deal with low motivation and high attrition?

As blended learning technology becomes more available there is a expanding need to perceive how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and lots of other participants desire to better understand the outcomes of these interesting new open educational experiments. Professors want to better understand how these MOOC courses can be made better. To meet this growing desire for details the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This amazing new book also articulates the key controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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